Shield attachment for garment hangers



May 24, 1932. F. GOLDBERG SHIELD ATTACHMENT FOR GARMENT HANGERS Filed May 10, 1929 dMqs ,iu such garment.-

In the merchandising of various garments,

Patented May 24,

I UM ED; ST-Ares.

FRANK GOLDBERG, or AUGUSTA, GEORGIA snIELn n'r'rncnmnnrron GARMENTHANGERS Applicationfi led May 10, l929."Seria1 N0."362,05 3.

This invention relates to'improvement's in attachments for garment hangers, having for an; object to provide a deviceespe'cially advantageous and practical for attachment to g; a garment hanger of usual construction or design, without modificationthereof, whereby V to protect a garment arranged thereon from soiling durin the handling of the same and yet, not interfere with an effectual display of such as dresses and the like, made of light and perishable materials, it frequently oc: ours that portions of the same are soiled by is finger markings during'the arranging or rearranging of the same uponracks employed to hang such garments'upon, henee, in some instances, detracting from the original sale value thereofor if not this, then necessitatingthe, cleaning of the soiled portionsof the garment. By the use of my novel attachment upon agarment hanger,,a shield is afforded that part of the garment usually engagedby the fingers of a sales clerk or other'person 2 during the removal,replacement or adjust ment of the garment from,to and upon a supporting rack, thus, preventing the fingers from having direct contact with an exposed portion of the garment and therefore, avoid- 30 ing soilinv of the same. V

Other. dbjects of the invention will be in part obviousand-in' partpointed out hereinafter: a V In order that the invention andits mode of operation may bev readilv understood by persons skilled, in the art,I have in the accompanying illustrative drawings and. in the I "detailed following description basedthereon,

set out several possible embodiments of the same.

In these drawings:

Figure l is a perspective View of a garment hangerequipped with the improved attach-' ment and showing the arrangementofthe free portion ofthe shield with respect to an expo'sed part of a garment suspended from thehanger; l V

Figure 2 is anenla r'ged transverse section through a garn ient hanger'equipped with the invention; V I 1 igure 3 is a detail in plan of the improved attachment; 7 7

I Figure 4 is a fragmentary detail in 1 Ian of the reverse and garment hanger attac ing portion of the invention;

Figure 5 is a fragmentarydetail in plan of for the invention; r t

Figure 6 is ia perspective of a slightly modifiedform of the invention, and

I Figure 7 is asimilar view of the opposite side of the modified form of the invention. -Having more particular reference -to the drawings, in connection with which like characters of reference will designate corresponding parts throughout,- and referring in I particular, to that form of the invention ilg lustrated in'the Figures '1 to 4 inclusive, the

inventionrmay be stated to be especially adapted for use in connection with garment hangers of the now prevalent construction a slightly difi'erent'form of attaching means I or design,though 'forpurposes of illustra tion" in this particular adaptation of the invention, I have shown the'fsam'ejas applied to the usual curved bar type of hanger, such hanger being indicated in its entirety bythe numeral 1 and having the interm e'diate portion thereofvprovided with the usual hanger hook 2 for anobvious purpose.

The inventlon per se, consists of a body-or f piece ofmaterial of preferably flexibleochan' acteristics', designated by the num'eral3, one end portionof said body being reduced "as indicated by'the numeral t while the 'oppo-i site end thereof, is similarly reduced, as indicated by the numeral 5 a pocket'6 being The pocket, 6, subsequently'to introduction.

, 'ofthe weighted element 7 thereinto, is pref:

erably closed by a row of stitching 8, where by to prevent displacement of said element 7. Also, for purposes of imparting a nicety of.

finished appearance to theibody-B, the edges thereof maybe, if desired, provided with a:

facing or.edgingsuchfasis indicated herein by the numeral9; :"1

. To facilitate engagement of one endpor 'tion of 'tl1e'ibody3 with the hanger 1 I en-I gage; in an intermediate portionof the re duce d part 4 thereof,an eyelet designated by the numeral 10, this eyelet being adapted to receive the hanger hook 2 therethrough, after the fashion as isshown 1n the Figures 1 and 2, while to effect proper arrangement or'disposition of the remaining and free portion and being indicated by j the numeral 12.

Herein, it is to be noted that the elements 11 of the separable fastening devices are setween the separable fastener elements 11 and cured to one side or face of the reduced portion lof the body 3,'while the remaining elements 12 are secured tothe opposite side or face ofrsaid body 3 and are in longltudmal alinement with respect thereto. Thus, with engagement of the eyelet 10 over the hanger hook 2, the freeor remaining portion of the body 3 is arranged about the hanger bar in a manner to permitofinterengagement be- 2 in themanner as i'srshown in the Figures 1 and 2; By this mode of arrangement of the free portion of the body 3, it will be understood that the same will dependfrom the hanger bar- 1 andwill be arranged in a perpendicular plane approximately correspondiiig'tOfth-e adg'acen't side orrface of the hanger bar 1; that because of the Weighted element 7 in the pocket fi-of thedependingjportion of the'body 3, saidfree portion of the body will be prevented from curling upwardly or being displaced with respect to an adjacent portion, of the garment G during continued use of the inventionl V In the Figure;5, I have shown a slightly 'Inodified form of the attachment, where n the reduced portion 1 of-the body'Sis formed at its extreme end with a longitudinallydisposed slit 13. separable fastener elements 1 1 are arranged upon the adjacent portion of the reducedv part 4 at the end of the slit 18 and with engagement of the hanger hook in said slit, these separable fastener elements are adapted to be interengaged and thus, will serve to'efiect a detachable connection of the device to the garment hanger.

vTh -slmode of attaching tlierdevice to the garment hanger, obviously, willdispense with the needof the eyelet 10 shown in connection with-that embodiment of the inven- ,tion illustrated in the Figures 1 to 4 inclusive,

In using thecharacter or form of invention illustrated inthe immediately'preceding fig- 'ures, it willbetunderstood thatwlien the gar- L mentG is arranged upon theflhanger bar, the free and normally depending portion of the 3 iis'permitted to-overhangor to overlie the outer sidetof a portion ofusaid garment. in 7 the fashion as'is shown in'the Figure 1 and in so doing, will provide an effectual shield for said garment, enabling the sales clerk or other person handling the garment to remove, replace or adjust the same upon a receiving rack without having his fingers come in contact with the garment, in that the, fingers of the persons hand engage directly with the depending and overhanging portion ofthe body 3 arranged over a part of the exposed portion of the garment, while others of the fingers of said users hand may engage with an inner side portion or unexposed portion of the garment. that because of the weighted free end of the body 3, the shield portion of'thesam'e will becaused to normally remain in its shielding or-overlying position with respect to 'acgarment-arranged upon a hanger provided with the invention and consequently ,upon; this, such invention will at all times remain in proper and operative-position. Should it become desirable to remove body 3 fromthe hanger, thisniay be readily ers and thus, prevent soiling of garments-are ranged thereupon due to the -contact iof-soiledshields with the same. In the Figures 6 and7, I'have :shown :an-

other modified form of the invention, where V V Herein, it willbe noted 1 in the Horrible body portion consists of apiece V of materal indicated by the numeral 15,-an 7 intermediate marginal portion of said body 15 being formed with'a tongue-'likeextension or tabldhavingan eyelet 17 engaged therein and adapted to receive the hanger hook 2 therethrough, while interen-gageable separable fastener. elements :18 are secured to 1.130?- tions of the tongue 16-and when interengaged.

will serve to effect a positive "connection of said body to the bar of the garment hanger 1'. VVing-like extensions 7 19 are aformedinipon the opposite side portions of the body 15-and these extensions permit the body 'tofibe arranged in cape-like fashion about a garment Gt arranged upon the garment hanger; "the free extremities of the wing-like-ezitensions 19 being provided with separable fastener elements 20, adapted to be interengage'd; whereby to effect connection between said extensions and to complete the cape li'ke shield e'flec't thereof: about the entire uj-pper or shoulder portion of thegarment-G' V 1 As willbe understood, thetype orspecie of.

the embodimentof the invention-as illustrated" t in the Figures 6 and 7 may be, ifdesire'd, read: ily removed" from the hanger 1 merely; by

disengaging the separable fastener elements 18 and then removing the eyelet 7 froin the hanger hook 2', whereupon a fresh or clean shield maybe substituted.

Manifest-1y, the constructlon shown is capable of considerable modification, and such modification as is wlthin the scope of my vention.

Iclaim: v

1. In Combination with a garment hanger, a garment protecting shield having oneend portion engaged withthe hanger hook ofthe garment hanger, the extremity of said end claimsI consider within the spirit of my inportion being extended adjacent one side of the garment hanger for a. distance beyond its point of engagement with the hanger hook,

the intermediate portion of said shield extending about the adjacent portions of the garment hanger and attached to the extended garment protecting shield having one end portion engaged with the hanger hook of the a garment hanger, the extremity of said end the garment hanger for a distance beyond its l hanger and attached to the extended extrem-V :ity of said end portion ofthe shield, and the remaining and free end portion of the shield portion being extended adjacent one side of point of engagement with the hanger hook, the intermediate portion of said shield extending about the adjacent portions of the garment hanger and over the extended extremity of said end portion of the shield, means establishing detachable connection between said intermediate portion and extended. extremity of said end portion of the shield,

and the remaining and free end portion of the shielddepending from the point of connection between the intermediate portion of the shield and the extended end portion of the same, and adapted to be arranged over an exposed portion of a garment positioned on said hanger.

3. In combination with a garmenthanger.

a garment protecting shield having one end portion provided-With an eyelet for engagement with the hanger hook of the garment hanger, the entremity of said end'portion being extended adj acentoneside of the garment engagement with the hanger hook, the intermediate portion of said shield extending about the adjacent portions-of thegarment depending from the point of attachment of the intermediate portion of the shield to the extended end portion of the same and adapted 1 to be arranged over anaexposed portion of a garment positioned on saidhange rt,

' 4. 'In comb'nation'with a garment hanger, a garment protecting shield having one end.

portion slated tor engagement with 1 the a hanger hook of a garment hanger, the slit in said end portion of the shield being; deep enough I to allow the extremity, o fthe latter? to extendadjacentone sideof the hangerfora distance beyond "its point ofiengagement H 1 with the hanger h'ook,'{the intermediate por- 1 tion of said shield extending about the adja-i cent portions oft'he garment hanger and-Lat tached to the extende x e y. 3;

portion of the shield,"=and"the remaining free end portion of the shielddepending fronrthe point of attachment 201. the intermediate por on said hanger.

tion of the "shield tothe extended'endffportionj of the same and adapted to be 'arranged oyer'i an exposed portion of a garment positioned 5. In: combination with {a garmenthanger, i

a garment protecting shield having oneend portion engaged with the hanger hook of the i garment hanger th'e extremityof saidend portion being extended adjacent one side of the garment hanger for a-,:distance beyond'its point of engagement with the hanger hook,

the intermediate portion of: said shield ex-' tending about the adjacent portionslof the garment hanger, and attached to, the extended extremity of said end portion of the shield,

the remaining and free end portion of the v shield depending fromi the point of attach-V ment of the intermediate portion of the shield to the extended end portion of the same and adapted to be arranged overan exposed por tion of a garment positioned on saidghang'er,

andwing-like extensions formed upon the oplike efiect thereto. 7 v

6.- In combination with a a garment protecting shield havingone end portion engaged with the hanger hook-ofth'e garment hanger, the extremity of said end portion being extended adjacent one side of garment hanger,

the garment hanger for a distancebeyond its point of engagement with V the hanger hook,

extremity of said. endjpo'rtion of theshield, Y

theremaining and free end portion ofthe shield depending tromthe point of attach v imentof theintcrmediat-e portion of the shieldhanger for a distance beyond its eyelet forto-the extended end p'oi'tionof the' sameand' tablishing tween;

a garmentprotecting shield consisting of an elongated body of fiexijblematerial,"'onevend portion of said body engaging the hanger -i l i V ,a

hook of the garmenthanger, the extremity a 16o poslte sides of sald shield mparting a capel tachmem ef the intermediate portion. of the body to the extended end portion:

ef said lend portien being extended adjmnt one sicle of the garment hanger for :a dis,-

' ca-nee beygmd its point of engagement with thev hanger' hook, the intermediate portion 0f said ,elangated body extendihg abeli't the adjaeent portions of ihegarment hoak and an tidied to the extended extremity of said :end

pmfion ofjheeloxigstt-ed body, and the remainirg and free end portien of the elemgabmi body depending from the point of at;-

ofthe same and being weighted and adapted tebe arranged over an exposed portion of a garment positioned on said hanger FRANK GOLDBERG In witness whereof I have hereunto set I my hand. 

